Field Notebook: Newfoundland, Nova Scotia 1910
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"L" gme 4,6 fnt. There is no such gme as defined by Rielandson. Character the same as before. "M1" or gme 12. Thickness 350 feet. A great series of heavy bedded grey to dove to light blue nodly limestone with fossils throughout making gastriports. Near the base get Orthus tricernaria, Raf, ridguli. [illegible] Phylloceras little them in total 16 at Portage Chimp. As the limestone is very hard and does not shatter as the lower beds it is very difficult to get the material seen. Lepididita is also common in the lower part. At the top there is a layer of Eospirigia 8 feet thick and the specimens are common. Torinwelf collected several specimens of trachyports in these upper beds suggesting the Mijgan forms. Saw here also several large (8 to 10 inches across) Euryptmeters but could get none and then the observation was from. Also got several specimens of ? Sillimorites. Got several Cyrtoceras, one annulated Cyto-ceras and one annulated hautiloid. Endoceras occur throughout between room food. Readily all of some fossils out of M1 are from the top of this gme. From the base besides those mentioned Horonitoma, Amphibin, large Osaphus tail and Maclurea. The limestone smells of petroleum on heating point. To 4 M1 the strike N50 W. dip 30 W. This is north of Tablehead "M2" gme 12 said to be 308 feet thick for I do not see more than 75 feet between the sponge bed and the first appearance of the Haedlit nodular beds of M1. On unweathered exposures M2 appears as a heavy bedded dark grey to light blue modular limestone, but under the weather